PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Play Therapy, Masters School
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Psychological, behavioral, social, and emotional needs: schools behavior issues, private therapy assess, diagnose, and treat disorders. Bridge between educators, administrators, students, and parents. Tasks: counseling, diagnosing learning problems, enhancing the learning environment, designing interventions. Study human growth and the development process. Research: language acquisition, attachment, moral reasoning. Applied practice: analyzing development progress, looking for delays / disabilities. The study of learning / retaining knowledge: primary in the classroom. Areas of focus: teaching and testing methods, classroom environment, learning, problems that impede learning. Generally requires a bachelor degree: usually masters or doctorate. Help students cope: personal and academic issues. May help with: choosing classes, applying to college, advice on personal conflicts. Help with emotional, social, cognitive, behavioral problems. Attachment play activities that strengthen parent-child connections. Advocates for children: help them overcome behavioral issues, finding community resources, protecting vulnerable clients. Use art as a way to help people express problems. Often work with children who have: developmental delays, anxiety, experienced trauma.
